The Zone Scores With HD Classics

Sky’s new cult channel The Zone will screen not only series premieres like Helix, The Strain and Defiance in HD but also library classics like Star Trek, Space 1999, Quantum Leap and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

The only series that won’t be in HD when the channel launches 4pm on November 3 are Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, which are being remastered in HD, and early seasons of Stargate: SG1.

Most of the retro programming, some of which is being lifted from Jones!, will be at the weekends, although Buffy, Stargate and Star Trek: The Next Generation will be stripped weeknights.

I am really impressed with the number of excellent shows that The Zone will be screening, with nearly all of them in HD. I better clear some recorded programmes from My Sky fairly quickly to make room for some of these new shows!

I haven’t seen any of the Star Trek Next Generation series. I may start watching them on the Zone. I have the original three seasons of Star Trek (William Shatner versions) on Blu-ray and they look and sound really good.